Vietnam will send a squad to compete in the first Youth Olympic Games, which will take place in Singapore in August, 2010, Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig warned team general managers about the financial crisis as they formally began their annual meeting on Tuesday.
The Nigeria Premier League (NPL) Monday banned the Enyimba Interanational Stadium Aba indefinitely, following Sunday's assault on match officials, including referee Paul Umuago during a match.
Jose Sulaiman was on Tuesday unanimously re-elected as president of the World Boxing Council.
The Buffalo Sabres took advantage of the rare absence of New Jersey netminder Martin Brodeur to beat the Devils 2-0 in Newark on Monday.
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's Paris Masters win on Sunday made it six Europeans into the season-closing Masters Cup in Shanghai with Andy Roddick and Juan Martin Del Potro the only exceptions in the elite eight-man field.
Phil Mickelson wants to cement his new reputation as a globe-trotting golfer by defending his HSBC Champions title as the European Tour begins a new era at the $5 million tournament in Shanghai this weekend.
New Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram is out of this month's two-test series in Australia after failing to recover from a lower back problem.
Anthony Hamilton, father of new Formula One world champion Lewis, said racial taunts and abuse had made him doubt whether his son should be competing in the sport.
Lewis Hamilton's Formula One title is only on loan, Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo said on Monday after the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix.
Damon Hill hailed McLaren's Lewis Hamilton as Britain's newest Formula One champion on Sunday and said the 23-year-old McLaren driver would be hard to stop now.
Barcelona reached the summit of the Spanish first division on Saturday but their 4-1 win at Malaga was marred by racism directed at their Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o.
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